To expand the developer tools product line, Amazon Web Services looked to provide a secure and low-cost code control service for private Git repositories that would ultimately integrate across additional AWS developer tools such as CodeDeploy and CodePipeline.
The main design challenge I faced centered how to design a product that mapped to customer expectations but provided unique improvements from competing repository management products. This required a detailed competitive analysis to reveal user experience opportunities, multiple iterations of the system design, and strategic planning of incremental feature roll-outs over a long product roadmap. A limited version of AWS CodeCommit was launched in July of 2015.
My product design approach included:
